CFC Indicating Renewal of the Japan Sea Deep Water in Winter 2000–2001 |
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| Authors: | Shizuo Tsunogai Kentaro Kawada Shuichi Watanabe Takafumi Aramaki |
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| Institution: | (1) Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan;(2) Marine Research Laboratory, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Mutsu 035-0064, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The distributions of CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) in the water column was determined twice in 2000 and 2001 in the northwestern
Japan Sea. In 2000 the CFC-11 concentration decreased almost exponentially with depth from 6 pmol/kg at a few hundred m deep
to 0.3 pmol/kg or less at the bottom of about 3400 m depth at three stations (40–41°N, 132–133°E) about 300 km off Vladivostok.
In 2001 the CFC-11 concentration increased sharply up to 2 pmol/kg in the bottom water, while it did not increase at a station
(42.0°N, 136.5°E) about 450 km away to the northeast. This is due to the renewal of the bottom water which is replaced by
the surface water flowing down along the continental slope, as suggested by Tsunogai et al. (1999), who proposed the continental shelf pump. Furthermore, an increase in the CFC-11 concentration was observed throughout
the entire water column above 3000 m depth, although the proportion of the increase was about 20%, which was one order of
magnitude smaller than that in the bottom water. The increase in inventory is almost four times larger than that in the bottom
water below 3000 m depth which is equivalent to about 1/6 of the total inventory found in 2000. The increase also means that
3% of the deep water was replaced by the recent surface water, or, if the turnover occurs every year, that the turnover time
of the deep water to be about 30 years.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | CFC chlorofluorocarbon Japan Sea bottom water formation turnover rate chemical tracers continental shelf pump |
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